South Holmwood is a village in the Mole Valley District of Surrey, England located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of Dorking on the A24 road. The village is part of Holmwood civil parish.
Despite the presence of dispersed farmsteads and cottages in the surrounding countryside, such as Betchets Green Cottage and Stoneheal, South Holmwood only became a significant settlement in the 19th century when the turnpike road was built from Epsom to Brighton. The village prospered from the increased thoroughfare (as well as from the presence of large country houses such as Anstie Grange and Holmwood Park), leading to the creation of establishments such as The Old Nag's Head inn, and middle-class villas such as The Dutch House. The village suffered bisection from Holmwood Common by the expansion of the turnpike road, now the A24, in 1971. The main residential area of the village is overlooked by the Anglican parish church of St. Mary Magdalene, built in 1838 and designed by John Burges Watson, standing on higher ground to the south.
A disused section of the Roman road Stane Street passes to the west of the village where there is one of the few changes in its alignment. Moor Cottage, South Holmwood, was the birthplace of the novelist E. Arnot Robertson (1903–1961). She then passed her childhood at Templeton, off Horsham Road.
Holmwood railway station is on the Mole Valley Line
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